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ELD “awareness period” extended to January 1, 2023: memo

On March 7, 2022, the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators advised that all Canadian jurisdictions will continue to support an education and awareness period for the federal ELD mandate that was set to expire on June 12, 2022, through to January 1, 2023. These measures have been recommended to allow sufficient time for industry to purchase and conduct necessary training to comply with the federal mandate. 

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Commercial Vehicle Driver Safety Improvement Proposal

We are a group of professional, working Truck drivers.

We are alarmed at the number of severe, avoidable collisions involving commercial vehicles we see on an almost-daily basis. While these incidents have becoming increasingly worse in Northern Ontario, it has become a problem throughout the entire country.

Our hope is to see commercial drivers become the safest drivers on the highways, as this should be the case already.

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Feds kill idea of inter-provincial vaccine mandates, while Tamara Lich remains in jail

Restrictions on interprovincial travel are forbidden under Canada’s Constitution and are the subject of a lawsuit against the government by Brian Peckford, the last living signatory of Canada’s 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Canada’s Transport Minister Omar Alghabra mused about implementing such restrictions during the Freedom Convoy 2022 in February.

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The Ripple Effect

    In the US, American truckers are getting registered for a protest convoy to Washington, where military-grade fencing barriers have been placed around the Whitehouse and the capital building. No doubt, this is a precautionary measure due to the January 6th 2021 insurrection.

   With truckers planning a Freedom Convoy to Washington, and the protests here in Canada winding down, I can’t help but ask myself: will it matter? Will the American Freedom Convoy have the impact that the Canadian convoy did?

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